Janet Meakin Poor (November 27, 1929 – June 21, 2017, Cincinnati, Ohio) was a landscape design specialist based out of Winnetka, Illinois.

She later continued her studies at Triton College in River Grove before entering University of Wisconsin-Madison for landscape design and horticulture.

[1] She was vice president of the Garden Club of America, vice chairman on the board of trustees of the Center For Plant Conservation,[2] chair of Open Days; 1989–2000, a showcase of hundreds of American gardens by the national organization The Garden Conservancy, advisor to the historic country estate at the Filoli Center near San Francisco, on the awards committee at the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate in Delaware, a board member with the American Horticultural Society, and a member of the advisory council of the United States National Arboretum, an appointment by the United States Secretary of Agriculture.

She played a major role in the development of the new Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center at CBG, which provides laboratories and teaching facilities for more than 200 PhD scientists, land managers, students and interns.

She was married to Edward King Poor III in 1951, a partner in a recruiting firm and a keen golfer who served in the U.S. Army in World War II.